The end of a year; Happy New one!; MediaMaster and MediaMug of the Year; Making the vital connection; Five ways to ruin your PR material; Listen up; An interview with Katie Bulmer-Cooke; Music fromThe Dustbowl Revival

Compliments of the season; A return of the Monday video tips; A place on my speaker coaching programme; James Corden; A fake interview; The Queen’s Speech; It’s over when you get home; Be who you are; An interview with Tony Hawks; Music from Rob Corcoran

A bit of a weekend; Santa relatively speaking; AA Gill; Really bad advice; Stage Presents; All I want for Christmas is a guest; Be a social media Santa; An interview with Richard McCann; Music from The Lost Hollow Band

Another year nearly over; Christmas countdown; Daryll Jones; Shilpa Shetty; Seven tips for good humour; Ten Media Commandments part 1; 4 tips for social media; An interview with Lindsay Adams; Music from Robbie Boyd

Black Friday; A Welshman who wasn’t there; Storytelling Masterclass; Barack Obama; Chasing Pavements; Make it Personal; Should you accept interview requests?; How to stop people following you; An interview with Bob Mills; Music from Lisbee Stainton

A storytelling masterclass; Leonard Cohen; Danny Baker; A new name for coffee?; Instead of the handout; Know where you are going; What should I do on Twitter?; An interview with Vinny Verelli; Music from Ellie Rose

Brexit on hold; US Election nearly done; WiFi in the sky; Bono is a woman; Let’s work together; On-air brevity, On-line detail; A tweet is a headline; Interviews with Rob Corcoran and Kelly McRae; Music from Kelley McRae

A speaker convention; Nasty US politics; Bob Dylan; A multi-level row; Three Speaking Emergencies; Burning Phones; Building an audience for your blog; An interview with Jeremy Nicholas; Music from Rob Corcoran

Professional Speaking in Nottingham; Political speeches; Rod Temperton; Facebook red faced; The Double Close; How to behave on Air; What to post, where to post it?; An interview with Craig Price; Music from Ainsley Diaz Stevens

No sparks in the USA; A year-long speaker coaching offer; Tube chat; Ryder Cup Madness; Everything is important; The sound of silence; Unexpected objective in the tagging area; An interview with Carol Spiers; Music from Rob Corcoran

No to politics; Do you know about reputation?; Exceptional Speaking; LibDem humour; Duncan Carswell and the sun; Are you funny enough?; Anything you’d like to add?: Collaborate, Collaborate, Collaborate; An interview with Nick Bradley; Music from the Mona Lisa Twins

The BBC makes its own news; Well done Diego!; Exceptional Speaking; Stef Reid; Kayak capers; Hands across the world; Paint a portrait of the future; Twitteractive; An interview with Tanni Grey-Thompson; Music from Mick Terry

Congratulations all round; Exceptional Speaker Masterclass; Madness at a Press Conference; Ryan the Liar; Coping with Interruptions; Media Longevity; Where’s that Tweet?; An interview with Jeffrey Hayzlett; Music from Slim Chance

The Rio Olympics; Get yourself on this show; Park bench antics; Strange paint colours; A return to rhetoric; Phoning in a story; How to provide value online; An interview with Ben Murphy of The Woodford; Music from The Lost Hollow Band

John Cleese on YouTube; Sunbed time; Trains in Japan; Katie Hopkins and the M25; Seven behaviours that can ruin your speech; Are you credible?; Are you sure that’s a good idea?; An interview with Le Brewery CEO April Chandler; Music from Robbie Boyd

By the time I got to Phoenix; Le Brewery; Michelle Obama; Covering up David; Getting Personal; How a journalist reads your media release; Who is influential on Twitter?; An interview with Steve Bingham; Music from Slim Chance.

The Silly Season; Melania Trump; Landing on the moon; Source code; Boris Johnson; A few rhetorical techniques; I’ve been misquoted; How to be a social media magnet; An interview with Lesley Everett; Music from David Knopfler.

Strange days in politics; Prime ministerial changes; David Cameron; Coiffeurgate; Five tips for speaking in meetings; On the straight and narrow; Are you regular?; An interview with Michael Dodd; Music form Jesse Furay Lynch

Three women leaders?; Well done the Welsh; Chris Coleman; Tesco Twits; Allow me to introduce; Hook Line and Sinker; Harry Potter and the Cursed Channel; An interview with Paul Connew; Music from The Dustbowl Revival.

An interesting week in politics; The Somme remembered; Gordon Murray; Steve McClaren; How to get on the big stages; Any minute now we will see the plane; Hold ‘em, fold ‘em or walk away; An interview with Derek Arden; Music from Jim Boggia

Which way over the EU; A great online course coming soon; Tommy Edison; Who moved Crimea?; Advice from Old Bill; What should I say to the media?; Social media advice from films; An interview with Martin Laschkolnig; Music from The 1957 Tail-Fin Fiasco.

Too close to call; Eulogies for Muhammad Ali; Rick Astley; Adidas upsets a country; The 7 deadly assumptions of speaking; Organising a photocall; Have a Social Media Cocktail; An interview with Andy Murray the baker; Music from the Dustbowl Revival

The European debate rages on; And on; Hillary Clinton; Donald Trump; Block it Spot it; It’s all new to someone; Five ways to create shareable content; An interview with John Richardson of the Coffee Boys; Music from Mick Wilson

BHS goes bust; Volkswagen woes; Tapas in Southend; Carla Lane; Long long jeans; Seven ways to improve a speech; Five rules of the media game; Raise your Twitter game; An interview with Lance Forman; Music from Peter James Millson

It’s all gone a bit Euro; Stoned Sheep; Where’s the metal in Europe?; PayPal and Isis; Just the facts please; Objective! your honour; Is is really you?; An interview with Carolyn Strauss; Music from PR Dewhurst

An event with unusual entrepreneurs; Exceptional Speaking; Post-it wars; Close your tabs; The Promise of the Premise; Ten Tips for web video; Robbie the Robot Goes Social Networking; An interview with Joe Wicks; Music from the Lost Hollow Band.

A historic European vote; Exceptional Speaker Masterclass; Sadiq Khan; The French Government; Do you know what you are saying?: The Doorstep Ambush; Unexpected objective in the tagging area; An interview with Neil Mullarkey; Music from Augustana

The Hillsborough verdicts; Donald and Hillary march on; Kelly
Cates; The Sun newspaper; That’s Amore; All down the line; You
can’t always get what you want; An interview with Katie
Bulmer-Cooke; Music from Robbie Boyd

The Grim Reaper is way too busy; That super-injunction; John Whittingdale; Victoria Wood; Prince Rogers Nelson; Five awkward problems for speakers; Three key facts about media releases; The Dunbar number; An interview with Paul Sloane; Music from Jim Boggia

The season of the underdog; Brexit or not?; Texting in films; Parkrun troubles; Eliminate the competition; The truth and nothing but; The social media cocktail; An interview with William Buist; Music from the 1957 Tail-Fin Fiasco.

Reputation Matters; David Cameron, Donald Trump; Merle Haggard; The EU and cabbages; What you do before you do what you do; 24-hour media people; Make your speech Twitter-friendly; An interview with Jackie Barrie; Music from the Lost Hollow Band

No April Fools; Donald Trump U-turns; Ronnie Corbett; Who are you texting?; Own the stage; What does it mean for viewers?; Social Media addiction; An interview with Phillip Khan-Panni; Music from Mick Terry

The Exceptional Speaker Masterclass; Politics is back; Barack Obama; Top Gear; Start as you mean to go on; Four Media Myths; Write a letter to a friend; An interview with Paul du Toit; Music from the 1957 Tail-fin fiasco

Maria Shrapova; A break from politics; George Martin; Swimming in Hong Kong; Mind your language; The ten people you meet in the media; I beg to differ; A interview with Shaz Nawaz; Music from the Lost Hollow Band

Back in the UK; Exceptional Speaking; Oscar hangover; Tony Warren; Chris Christie; And who was it said?; Return every call from a reporter; Why social media is like archery; An interview with Lou Heckler; Music from Ainsley Diaz Stevens

Away on safari; Dan Walker; What does 100% British mean?; The seven deadly assumptions of speaking; Serve and Volley; The old variety show; Part two of Baroness Tanni grey-Thompson’s interview; Music from Jinder

A trip to Cape Town; Stories are important; Farewell Independent; Facebook responds poorly; Do you love your topic?: Five minutes on air, five hours prep; 10 tips for shareable content; An interview with Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson; Music from Peter James Millson

Some demonstrations work; Gravitational waves; A brilliant excuse; Kidnapped by aliens; Ladies and Gentlemen; 6 ways to get international publicity; Be the same person everywhere; An interview with Adam Shaw; Music from Rob Corcoran

A special birthday; Donald Trump again; Sir Michael Caine; Sand in the wind; Five essential elements of a great speech; What will an interviewer ask me?; Act like a tabloid editor; An interview with Karl Mecklenburg; Music from Jinder.

London Lumiere; Dead already; Don Henley; Dogs chasing sticks - or not; How to prepare an ad-lib speech; News and Not-News; Challenge but justify; An interview with Tony Hawks; Music from the Lost Hollow Band

A David Bowie story; Alan Rickman; Kenny Harris remembered; Donald Trump; Seven ways to make a conference amazing; Five ways to ruin your PR material; What are social networks good for?; An interview with Paul du Toit; Music from Jim Boggia

A very Happy New Year; One personal coaching place left; MediaMaster and MediaMug of 2015; Speak better - carry a notebook; Get yourself out there!; Play, don’t worry; An interview with Vinny Verelli; Music from Out of the Rain